The film’s central love story is interwoven with the massive strike that blocked Fiat for 35 days in Turin in 1980.
Emma (Valeria Solarino) is the youngest daughter of a family that “emigrated” from southern Italy, who looks get ahead in life with a degree in math and her engagement to manager Fabrizio Gifuni. Sergio (Filippo Timi) is a sombre factory worker from Umbria who, according to the actor, “is a fragile man who feels inadequate because he has little mastery of language. He prefers to remain silent and speak with his body. This is why the few words he does say seem all the more important”.